supporters of edward snowden the man who exposed the true extent of america's vast the valence network played for washington not to prosecute as he disappears from his hotel in hong kong the ultimate whistleblower wiki leaks julian assange exclusively tells r.t. that he fears snowden will be persecuted for years. president putin says however essential government surveillance must remain legal during a question and answer session here at the r.t. new center. hundreds of riot police again storm east. square as a crew from artie's arabic channel caught up in the heavy crackdown. that

welcome you watching r.t. coming to you live from moscow with. the cia man who blew the lid off america's vast n.s.a. public surveillance net is promising more explosive revelations edward snowden supporters are mobilizing to do with tens of thousands signing a petition to pardon the whistleblower earlier kevin own spoke to wiki leaks editor june the sun she said that snowden faces years of persecution and possible extradition if china complies with washington's potential demand. empathize having been through a very similar situation myself but quit trying to actively support through that seem to view it in other ways. snowden's plight back in october last year i published a book called so i put politics colin for exactly these sorts of actions in

relation to the mass of my own state that has developed in the united states and in a way small broadly exactly what mr snowden is doing so it's very pleasing to see such concrete simple proof presented before the public snowden's position is very very interesting in hong kong right now this week we have a meeting between the chinese president and president valar subverting the in california that discussing the size of war amongst other matters now if you do that while you would think that a naive level as well that would increase the odds trying to support for mr snowden in a little kind of and it may do under the surface of this thing it is the nature of trying to use you know geopolitics certainly if it's not really made sure you maneuvers and in fact to try and. suppress those people who seem to be dissenting and to go off

a fig leaf so i would expect at the end of the round that these wait and trying these who. from a serious distance to the united states possible extradition of mr started in china was the first country. to censor what he reads back in two thousand and seven the policies are very little bit since that time but to this present day the great firewall of china still tries. or reports say that u.s. officials are already in the process of filing charges against the twenty nine year old less than a week after the whistleblower revealed america's citizens spying to britain's guardian newspaper at the moment no one knows where snowden is he was last seen checking out of this hotel in hong kong that's where he remained for a while after revealing his identity to the global media it's thought he may still be in hong kong the chinese territory has an extradition treaty with the united states but the process could stretch out for months and could potentially be

blocked by beijing with us next is norman solomon a director of the institute for public accuracy he's in san francisco. thank you very much for your time and coming on to our to this evening firstly snowden is now on the run how do you see this story imagining. well politically to some extent and i think it's the united states government because despite all the claims from the white house of congress the reality of vast excessive surveillance has been documented by the material that it material from the n.s.a. were snowden has released so i think that while the prosecution and persecution of edward snowden is in train the reality is that the white house is on its heels there's been an awful lot of support hasn't there tens of thousands of people have

voiced support of the whistleblower do you think it would be snowden more good than it's done bradley manning. well i think it does do good initial e to make clear to so many in the u.s. public that there are substantial support for in this case edward snowden as there is already manning and as more information gets out i think that becomes more clear one of the hats i wear is co-founder of the on line group roots action dot org and twenty four hours ago we opposed to a petition which thanks edward snowden for his service to democracy if people go to roots action dot who were they will find at this moment almost thirty thousand signers almost all of them americans although there are others around the world joining in this is a reflection of i think substantial support for edward snowden in the united states and why do you think there's been such an aggressive reaction to what we've seen

because they're all polls that also show me majority of americans are actually ok with being watched if it's the security say why are we saying this sort of reaction ninety three think well depends on how that question is phrased but certainly the very aggressive stance and approach coming from leaders in congress and the white house has a lot to do with it and i have to say just as if i were chinese i would be opposed to the vast chinese surveillance state if i were russian i would be a part of the vast surveillance state of the russian government as an american i am opposed to the vaster valence of the united states government and that has to be pushed and promoted i think many people understand the necessity and what's the state of challenging this surveillance and do you think they'll be some sort of reaction from the governments world wide today steve think even behind closed doors

they might sort of withdrawal some of the surveillance programs because of the reaction because of the story we are now seeing unfold. well that depends on how well people organize around the world democracy is a spirit and a principle of that can be very galvanizing and the power of example as we've seen i think just in the last days from edward snowden is potentially quite enormous so i would hope that whatever country we live then we redouble our efforts to insist that open discourse and freedom and democracy are antithetical to the kind of secrecy and surveillance that in this instance u.s. government is continuing with which way do you think things will go because at the moment there's a cycle isn't there. washington keeps percy keesing whistle blowers and in return more more whistle blows come out and speak who's going to win this one do you think

is well it's really up for grabs that the obama administration has prosecuted persecuted more than all the other with whistleblowers have been prosecuted persecuted by all creepiest presidencies so i think it is a cycle and yet the awareness and understanding that we need to challenge that sort of repression is increasing in the united states i think very fast again if you go to your roots action dot org you'll see a manifestation of that where people are joining and so it is a spiral it's a battle between the forces of repression and the forces of democracy that's what we're dealing with here in the united states right now are we do have to leave it there thank you very much for coming on to r.t. that's norman solomon a journalist and antiwar activist thank you and give you our government surveillance was among the key issues touched upon by president putin within the

past few hours during a question and answer session here at the r.t. new center. i think everybody knows. for a long time that modern intelligence services control correspondence of citizens in their. era of comedy in global terrorism. it is seen as necessary but the question is how far is it being controlled by society because it. into a phone conversation without a court warrant. in principle this is the way it should be in a civilized society when fighting terrorism and using whatever technical appliances in possible stay within the boundaries set by the law if there is the case that's all right if not that is bad. for president putin's comments came during

a visit to r.t. headquarters here in moscow where our journalists managed to speak at length with the russian leader with questions rein ranging from the economy to foreign policy we'll bring you the highlights of our interview with putin later here on r.t. and also on our web site r.t. dot com. now two suicide blasts rocked the syrian capital damascus this tuesday killing at least fourteen people and wounding thirty one more of the explosions targeted a police station in the very heart of the capital with reports that one man blew himself up inside the building the attacks came after the syrian army returned town of qusayr from the rebels last week and what some see as a turning point in the war there are now just as in washington over the recent gains by assad troops who are now backed by hezbollah fighters the u.s. could approve sending weapons to the rebels as early as this week with a no fly zone also among the options well let's now bring in your m.p.

nick griffin on the phone in damascus he is the british leader of the leader of the british national party and in syria as part of a fact finding delegation. damascus has been rocked by a blast today but you've been describing life there as normal why's that. well no one in terms of when you walk around the streets this ordinary people the families the people some of them whom clearly you know strict muslims album secular role they're getting with their own alliance and trying to ignore all of the you know the bomb blasts which go off occasionally seen the same thing in northern ireland and if people get used to it their life continues this means a masters this is a state under attack it's not a stage in crisis now you say you want to highlight the me the british government supporting the syrian opposition what are they as me z.c. well fundamentally it's a question of blowback you remember what happened afghanistan with the way the cia

but british and so on created and ahmed al qaida to fight the soviet union and then of course once the soviet union was finished the jihad is you can go why do they turn their attentions elsewhere and what we've got now then been managed to turn huge profits fortunately shrinking conference of syria into a giant terrorist training camp the majority of the people fighting in syria now against the syrian government foreign terrorists tens of thousands of them including converts from the e.u. some of them even britain when the war is over here they're going to come back to britain come back to western europe and continue their jihad but this time will be the talk it's what you expect the us to do next you expect them to go ahead with weapons supplies to the opposition. i think in the us will go ahead with weapons supplies this a number of people with a number of organizations and countries involved in this criminal drive to destroy secular syria one of them is the united states government not ordinary american

people but their working out so this was a neo con blueprint which was produced at the start of the century by a group cold calling itself the project for a new american century and they wanted to see any supplies for the united states and also to contain russia and that is why this attack on syria is the latest h. all of the. criminal action by the united states really not the only ones to blame but there are a significant part of it so i fear that they will probably want to go ahead and own these rebels even though in doing so do their own thing the same people attacked the united states on nine eleven and how do you gauge time with the the other politicians you may day with but you are part of a delegation of pan-european politicians over all what's their assessment right now of what's happening in syria they hung around the time with a constant thing and in particular the most important of those are members of the flemish belgian bottom and i think we're all pretty much in agreement with what

we've seen we've all been able to talk to coordinate syrians and also the different levels something that comes out from all those people we speak to is that syria was not perfect but it was a secular charter and state no one even can it if someone was sunni or shia or christian or jewish they don't go on with it and that's the thing which is going to be destroyed if this carries on and everyone i was they always gets that point and agrees with me and the vast majority of people in britain that we shouldn't be involved in other people's quarrels the syrians have problems to sort out the problems of a question to syria to sort of available not through foreign terrorists and foreign military intervention ok thank you mr gates and that was that we need to have the british national party nick griffin. on have more of the will he feel in just a couple of minutes stay with us here on alt. but

i will only react to situations as i have read the reports so unlike the players i know i will leave them to the state department to comment on your latter point of the month to say that if mr k.l.a. car is on the docket else i. think you know more weasel words when you have a direct question be prepared for a change when you have to punch be ready for a. print of a speech and a little bit on the freedom to cost. you will. see its technology innovation all the lives developments from around russia we've gone to the future covered.

hello again no more tolerance for the protests in turkey that pronouncement comes from prime minister after hundreds of riot police stormed a stone bostock's in square raining take gas and rubber bullets down on protesters given nearly two weeks of heavy policing the nice car is an occupy gezi park tester and was at taksim square during this morning's police crackdown he told a bang not say what he witnessed through tweet to the governor of a stumble send a message that they're not going to intervene in the gezi park but the only texan square so they want to remove the barricades and they said they're not going to intervene in the peace of protestors but what the scene in the following hours that

they came in the square and they started to intervene in gezi park now to take some square the central center of istanbul is it's all over tear gas and even myself have been tear gas while i was coming here while i was on the way to the studio but the scene today is actually going worse for example in the in the biggest courthouse of istanbul today there were around fifty lawyers who were possessed protesting as the police while they were all arrested a few hours ago rubber ballots have been used by the police today. one people might have been. although i should state that this is not an. official information and denise said just how far the protests as a willing to go now that you've mentioned that unofficial reports that there might be a death involved from today's protests and that police trying to get everybody out it seems that way. are you ok can you please repeat i can't hear you how far you

will like ok how far are you willing to go. well the. as you might heard tomorrow the prime minister is is is is to meet with the a representation group of the protests in gezi park so there were some certain demands that. gezi park with isis or put that they put on to the table so the prime minister the government will will absolutely discuss with them but they possible to be met by these demands or what kind of. concessions can be made through the negotiation process so we'll see what's going to happen tomorrow tomorrow's meeting as i think it will be very pretty much will be a turning point and a crew from artie's arabic network was also among nice caught up in the violent

crackdown. if well that's what started the crackdown on protesters or attacks seems where early in the morning or used tear gas and broke the tents tear gas canister hit the camera and broke into our cameramen fell to the ground i also suffer badly from the tear gas violent clashes are happening right now in the streets of istanbul it's like a war zone. our correspondent has just returned from istanbul after reporting on the anti-government rallies here she shared her experience. taksim is the unique place absolutely because it was nothing like any of the protests that were ever seen before it was going to be feeling like of can bradbury a lot of people were there but there were so many people and they were there night after night and i couldn't help but ask the question that at some point it obviously had to the how end and obviously the protesters weren't given any of their any of their demands or any of their aspirations at the same time you had the

prime minister who first left for four days just when the protests started just when people were really agitated and angry then he came back and said we're not going to budge we're not going to make any concessions everything's going to be just like it was and then just a couple of days later there's a fine if you don't want the park to be demolished we'll think about it but we will not make a shopping mall that's as far as the government has gone and even now i mean yes there have been some semi apologies from the mayor or from the ministry of interior when it came to the excessive use of force and this is something that the government was criticized for in turkey but they haven't really they haven't really promised any was to geisha into that well prime minister erdogan has slammed the protesters as morgues in the speech to parliament he also blamed the media and social networks the steering the unrest. he's been following the events and to he says he doesn't feel threatened by the protests because it is international backing . one hand feels emboldened really trapped in a very hard where gets the protestors and he's in bold and because he's

a member of nato and u.s. allies and i think he acts very interesting to see just how move mutinied criticism of murder has been over the last week in the west john kerry made some much rings about not using too much force but william hague for example has been cited the phrase you've been cited and i think it's in boulder to go to have to clamp down hard on protesters but in the fleet but in the air to cannons that plastic bullets etc i think ohio feels really that there's no real pressure on him to actually negotiate to be with the protesters why should he think it because he's got the backing of nato and the u.s. the u.s. will do everything to stop him from falling from power and i think that's what that that's a very important factor the other thing is of course elections are here in turkey for two more years the opposition is divided so he thinks he's in a very strong position. a quick look now at other headlines this hour a massive explosion has hit the supreme court compound in afghanistan's capital leaving seventeen people dead and another forty wounded the taliban admits carrying out the attack saying it targeted judges who were bay western powers the blast

which is the deadliest in the city since the end of twenty eleven took place just two hundred meters from the u.s. embassy. china has launched a manned space flight on a fifteen day to deal with the space lab the capsule carrying the three astronauts lifted off from the gobi desert in the countries far west the crew of two men and one women are taking part in china's longest space mission yet as part of work to complete the country's own space station by the end of the decade. venezuela says its fall day plot to kill president mature rope police seized nine members of colombian paramilitary along with weapons ammunition and fake venezuelan army uniforms it is believed another group may still be in the capital caracas venezuela is late president chavez fell out with columbia seven years ago accusing it of being in washington's pocket by allowing us access to military bases. at least seventy people have been killed and two hundred thirty injured in iraq

during just one day in the latest spike in violence suicide blast roadside bombs and gun battles rocked the country on monday continuing weeks of bloodshed which has claimed nearly two thousand lives since april much of the violence is being blamed on sunni insurgents after months of protests against the shiite led government r.t.c. investigates the sectarian tension. may was the bloodiest month seen in iraq in the past five years a surge in sectarian violence that's raised fears of another civil war sunni versus shia one country two sects. iraq has been through this before and that divide never really field tensions are growing between the shiite led government and minority sunnis inflamed by the raging conflict in neighboring syria to understand the divisions we have to travel to an area off limits to foreign journalists the embar province following the u.s.

led invasion this area was the heartland of the sunni insurgency today it's become the focal point of the anti-government protests the on for several months now every friday this scene prayer on the highway to baghdad followed by protests against the baghdad government it's a situation that's reflective of the state of iraq today a country that has been torn apart by war but doesn't seem to be and are closer to healing the wounds in the divisions that have been on the least during that occupation here the sunni protesters who have gathered behind me want a different kind of system they want to change they feel that the government doesn't represent them. is one of those protesters he's brought his son to almost every demonstration there for a residence but not by choice he says he was forced to flee baghdad for fear of arrest by the military and that his sect made him a target of one day a military brigade surrounded the area where we lived in baghdad and started making

arrests they were targeting sunday residents and arrested two of my cousins so i gathered my family and escaped to flew jets. with. the demonstrators complain of discrimination arbitrary arrests detention even torture under the rule of prime minister nouri al maliki charges that the government denies the question was also the government systematically driving sunnis from baghdad this is missing. migrations is being done in the open cities are restricted in everything from where we live to the kinds of jobs we can have but in a shia neighborhood a different version of the story fearful of retribution for speaking out this residence for first to hide his identity he tells us of the dangers iraqi shia from armed groups. have been displaced by threats from al qaeda and other militias this used to be a mixed area but people have started exchanging houses between sunni and shia families to safety. some analysts blame the united states for the divisions they

believe the new system political system or of the sectarian basis. like they made the proportions for the seventies for this. and for the dish this is very good all . those divisions have taken a toll on iraq each generation separated by the threat of violence. really affects the cools there's a lot of programs between me and my friends especially if they're from a different six we can't work together we'll hang out publicly or in some neighborhoods i can get killed for being seen with someone from a different religious group ten years after the war iraq is still struggling to find peace and the ghosts of its sectarian past haunt the future you see catherine of r.t.e. baghdad. the internet's big boys have been caught sharing people's private data will web users find my main interest is.

six india residents were thrown off of an airplane not for what they said but how they said it because they said it in another language russian in fact a paranoid and cowardly steward on the plane told them that they had to clear out just for speaking another language to be here yes of some group of people were to commit a terrorist act then speaking in a foreign language would be a good tactic i can't deny that and four years ago do america better get on the ball and learn to speak english adequately but there is a problem about fifty million tourists visit america every year according to the us department of commerce and trust me not all of them are canadians if the usa is going to have millions of tourists arriving in traveling by air then don't be surprised when they speak their own languages if you're going to throw foreigners

off of airplanes just for speaking their native languages then you're going to have to basically throw people off of half of the plane. united states but the surest my opinion. good afternoon and welcome to prime interest i'm perry and boring and washington d.c. let's get to our headline. so apple is not snooping on you promise along with google microsoft and other tech giants this is after the now infamous security

leaker edward snowden went public over the weekend allowing his name to be revealed we were ported friday that nine at tech companies face a whistle blowing allegations and the press they allowed direct to government access to their servers which they now strenuously denying snowden the twenty nine year old booz allen employee has drawn support from some unlikely that such as michael moore and glenn beck and microsoft's former chief privacy officer advisor caspar bowden went as far as to compare crowded data outside the u.s. as the privacy guantanamo bay will dig into the fine print of the security of mobile payments in just a bit and while we're talking about apple they just are sure to leave the jackson through the revolving door she will become their environmental adviser the green hired gun was once head of the environmental protection agency under.